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Continuity and Distinction of Wealth Elites in Post‐Apartheid South Africa: Mapping the Social Space of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides the first systematic mapping of wealth elites on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), using original data on individuals linked to significant shareholding entities rather than corporate executives. Through Multiple Correspondence Analysis and cluster analysis, we identify four elite formations shaped by race, gender ...
Aroop Chatterjee, Comfort Molefinyana
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories: Developing the Turkish Conspiracy Mentality Scale (TCMS)

Journal of Economy Culture and Society
Scales that claim to measure generic conspiracy beliefs are significant instruments for understanding people’s tendency to believe in specific conspiracy theories.
Abdullah Koçak, Nuh Akçakaya
doaj   +1 more source

Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

On the relationship between conspiracy theory beliefs, misinformation, and vaccine hesitancy. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2022
Enders AM, Uscinski J, Klofstad C, Stoler J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The law of AI knowledge distillation

American Business Law Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Knowledge distillation—the practice of training a compact student model on the outputs of a larger teacher model—has emerged as the fastest‐growing technique for replicating and disseminating frontier artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Taorui Guan
wiley   +1 more source

Significant Far‐Right Challenges to Australian Society? The XYZ and AustraliaOne

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars who analyse the Australian far‐right from a criminological or security studies perspective propose that activists and groups pose ‘political’ challenges to Australian society. This paper examines the far‐right news website The XYZ and the AustraliaOne political party, and argues that claims that the far‐right may normalise ...
Timothy Lynch
wiley   +1 more source

Cause and effect: On the antecedents and consequences of conspiracy theory beliefs. [PDF]

Curr Opin Psychol, 2022
Uscinski J, Enders AM, Klofstad C, Stoler J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Conspiracy Theory Handbook

, 2020
Conspiracy theories attempt to explain events as the secretive plots of powerful people. While conspiracy theories are not typically supported by evidence, this doesn’t stop them from blossoming. Conspiracy theories damage society in a number of ways. To
Stephan Lewandowsky (1376502), John Cook (8578200)   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
wiley   +1 more source

Factors affecting conspiracy theory endorsement in paranoia. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci, 2022
Greenburgh AG, Liefgreen A, Bell V, Raihani N.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source